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The Handel Society is to perform J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion at Dartmouth College on May 18-19. (Jon Gilbert Fox photograph)

Entertainment Highlights: Handel Society Performs Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion’

Friday, May 17, 2013

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the oratorio that the Handel Society of Dartmouth College will perform this weekend, is not the type of piece that a choral ensemble can pull off on an annual basis. It’s long — the Handel Society’s performance will span just over three hours, with an intermission — and sung in German by six adult …

NBC Plans a ‘Crisis’ Series for Fictitious Washington VIPs

Monday, May 13, 2013

Today at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NBC will unveil to advertisers its prime-time schedule for the 2013-14 television season. Among the new shows to be announced will be an action thriller set in Washington starring Dermot Mulroney (not to be confused with Dylan McDermott) and Gillian Anderson. The premise of the show, titled Crisis, goes like this: There’s this bus …

New Country Star Is Galloping Away

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Fresno, Calif. — Dustin Lynch is a rising country-music star, with two hit singles and a self-titled album that debuted at No. 1 on the country charts. The Tennessee native just got done opening for Justin Moore on the “Outlaws Like Me Tour.” It’s dream-come-true stuff for Lynch, whose heroes are guys like Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks — singers who revolutionized the …